Death, Gender and Ethnicity

Abstract

Introduction 1. Making Sense of Difference: Death, Gender and Ethnicity in Modern Britain David Field, Jenny Hockey and Neil Small 2. Death at the Beginning of Life Alice Lovell 3. 'Shoring up the Walls of Heartache': Parental Responses to the Death of a Child Gordon Riches and Pamela Dawson 4. Masculinity and Loss Neil Thompson 5. Women in Grief: Cultural Representation and Social Practice Jenny Hockey 6. Death and the Transformation of Gender in Image and Text Elizabeth Hallam 7. Beauty and the Beast: Sex and Death in the Tabloid Press Mike Pickering, Jane Littlewood and Tony Walter 8. Absent Minorities? Ethnicity and the Use of Palliative Care Services Chris Smaje and David Field 9. Culture is not Enough: A Critique of Multi-culturalism in Palliative Care Yasmin Gunaratnam 10. Death, Gender and Memory: Remembering Loss and Burial as a Migrant Gerdian Jonker 11. Death and Difference Neil Small Index